The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-24
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DIR. Melsheimer was born at Hanover,
Adams county, Penn, Sept. rs, 1873; located
in Button, Ind, as physician in 1874, and
has been a resident there ever since, with the
exception of eight months residence in Hunt
ington, Ind. He was married to Susan Horn
Dwier, at Ashland o., March 81, 1916, she
dying at Button, May 8, 1876, leaving a fam
lily of two sons and one daughter. He was
again married, December 8, 1880, to Mrs.
Martha Cartright, who survives him. He
was first assistant surgeon in the l0lst lndi-
diana Infantry. Served in this capacity dur
ing the years 1862 and 1868. Died at Harbor
Point Mich, where he had gone for his
HEALTHY, Aug. 81, 1887, of Bright's disease OF
the kidneys. DIR. Melsheimer was considered
among the best in the Enthusiastically,
stood high and was honored by all his breth-
rem in his professional character. He had
child-like trust iu God. The light of the
Christians faith to him was reflected on the
gates of heaven, long before he reached
them. He was a loving husband and father;
a best friend. He was slave to no sect, yet
he loved Universalism because he saw in
this faith the true meaning of the gospel of
Christ, the fatherhood of God, the brother
hood of man, the ultimate triumph of good
in every life. The funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon, August 30, in the
beautiful home of the departed. Services
conducted by his pastor, assisted by Bros.
McComb and Tinker. His body was taken
charge of by the Odd Fellows, of which he
had long been an esteemed member. Appro-
pirate services were held at the house and
grave. 1t was the largest and one of the
saddest funerals ever held in Button. 1t is
an angel of our Heavenly Father which says
to mourners, "Be assured God would not
aff1ict in one way if it were not to bless in
another N. A. SAXON.
Jos. Clyde, son of Mr.. and Mrs. DIR. Ed.
Tayler, of Logansport, Ind. died Sunday,
Aug. 81, aged eleven months. Services ap
propriate to the occasion we're conducted at
the residence by the pastor of the Universal
ist church. While the hearts of these be-
reaved parents we're made to bleed, they
have the consolation of feeling that another
angel child has been added to the vast null
| titude upon the celestial shore. Thus while
| the tender ties are snapped asunder here,
the attachments drawing us upward are
growing stronger, until we too shall take
wing and fly away.
At her home in Union county, Ind, Sept
5, 1887, Mrs. Lorinda Miller, widow of the
late B. F. Miller, who was one of the organ
izers of the Union Universaliet church in that
county in 1847. Mrs. Miller was a woman of
gentle, retiring disposition, and of noble
and sympathetic nature. None knew her
but to love her. She was an invalid for sew
eral years and for the last few months an in
tense sufferer. She bore her suffering with
patience and Christian fortitude, in the hope
of reunion of loved ones and blessed I'M
mortality. In the absence of a Universalist
minister, the funeral services were conducted
by Rev. j. W. McGregor, of the M. E. church,
who spoke words of consolation to the be-
reaved family and the large concourse of
i people assembled. E.B.
Frank Goodwine, son of James and Sophia,
was born in Warren county, Ind, Dec. 6,
1S41. He enlisted in the SD Reg't Ind. Vol.
nifty, in February, 1862, and in 1864 veter-
aned. He was discharged for disability. He
was twice married, leaving a son eight years
| old, and wife to whom he bad been mar
ried but four months. While an outspoken
believer in the salvation of the race of man,
he was not a member of the church. The
disease from which he died was softening of
the brain. His death occurred Aug. 81, 1887,
at the age of As years, 9 months and % days.
Appropriate services took place from the M.
E. church, West Lebanon, Ind, Thursday,
Sept. l, conducted by Rev. I. B. Grandy, of
Logansport, Ind. The service at the grave
was conducted by the G. A. R. Post, of which
he was an honored member. His father and
mother were not able to be in attendance on
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In Concord, jackson county, Mich, Sept.
1, 1887, Roxa H., wife of Jerome Virgins,
aged fifty three years. The maiden name of
the deceased was Roxa H. Eastman. She
was born in Sandstone, jackson county,
Mich. Her father, mother, brothers and two
children all preceded her to the home of rest.
There we're tender ties that bound her to
earth, but there were reckoning hands that
called her away from earth; and during the
weeks of weary suffering, she longed for the
time of her departure. With an abiding
trust in the All Father, and an assured conf
dence that there was home of rest for every
child of humanity, she bade adieu to earth
and friends in the sure hope she would meet
them again. She was member of the Uni
versalist church in Concord, devoted Chris
tian, true wife and faithful friend. Funeral
services were held in the Universalist church
conducted by her pastor. The large gather
ing of neighbors, called out by that service,
attest the high esteem in which she was held
in life. The sympathy of the community
goes out to the bereaved companion in his
4 sad loneliness. w. L. GIBBS.
For weak lungs, splitting of blood, short